Getting to know your Hawaiian Lobeliads

Hawaiian Lobeliads

“Unquestionably the crowning glory of our flora are the arborescent lobelias.” Vaughan MacCoughey -Botanical Gazette, 1917

A group of monophyletic plants within the Bellflower family (Campanulaceae) that are thought to have arrived in the Hawaiian chain roughly 13 million years ago. Many are orthophilous with a few exceptions. They are among the largest radiation of oceanic island plants derived from a single ancestor.

Genus Lobelia sect. Galeatella
#23		Lobelia gaudichaudii
Genus Trematolobelia
#9		Trematolobelia kauaiensis
#35		Trematolobelia macrostachys
#1		Trematolobelia singularis
Genus Lobelia sect. Revolutella
#7		Lobelia monostachya
#16		Lobelia niihauensis
Genus  Brighamia
#15		Brighamia insignis
Genus Delissea
#25		Delissea kauaiensis
#24		Delissea rhytidosperma
#11		Delissea waianaeensis
Genus Cyanea
#26		Cyanea acuminata
#6		Cyanea angustifolia
#20		Cyanea arborea
#31		Cyanea asarifolia
#33		Cyanea calycina
#5		Cyanea crispa
#29		Cyanea grimesiana grimesiana
#32		Cyanea hardyi
#12		Cyanea hirtella
#18		Cyanea humboldtiana
#34		Cyanea konahuanuiensis
#3		Cyanea koolauensis
#27		Cyanea lanceolata
#2		Cyanea leptostegia
#17		Cyanea pohaku
#14		Cyanea superba
#13		Cyanea truncata
Genus Clermontia
#10		Clermontia faurei
#22		Clermontia hawaiiensis
#4		Clermontia kakeana
#30		Clermontia lindseyana
#8		Clermontia oblongifolia
#21		Clermontia parviflora
#19		Clermontia persicifolia
#28		Clermontia pyrularia